I haz noo job
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I have accepted the position as Research Development Advisor at RMIT. I will be working with the College of Design and Social Context (that is, not Business and not Science & Engineering). It will be four days per week, which will leave me time to work on the simple privacy research with Margaret, if we can get some funding. I start on Tuesday 11 January 2011, so we have time to work out what to do with my current projects, morsla.
In the end, I decided that I needed the structure more than I needed the variety of multiple, overlapping research projects even if I was driving them myself.
Here are some of the ideas that I'd like to implement for my new position (so that I can look back in 12 months and laugh at how optimistic I was).
- A Ning social network for research administrators. For the first year, we will be talking to ourselves, but it will take off if we push it.
- Grant writing workshops that work like fiction writing workshops, where people get together on a regular basis to critique drafts. Probably four of these - one per week for me, once a month for the participants.
- Industry linkage funding.
- Non-ARC research grants.
- Philanthropic funding.
- Australia Council and other arts funding.
- Once a week, publish a new idea or tool (like the one above) to help people find funding. After a year, publish them as a pack of cards.
- Relentlessly link people across Schools, campuses and with other universities.
- Get people to raise their profiles on the research repository. It really helps.
- Update Developing Academic Research Funding, if Margaret and Rosemary are agreeable.
- Go back to the ideas I came up with for the interview. I'm sure there were more than this.